Nagios ... The way to monitor your stuff

The first time my friend Abdullah mentioned Nagios to me, I was kind of not that much interested to hear about it (Sorry Abdullah ;) ). But when I read about it and installed it on my linux machine, I was surprised. Nagios is system, application and network monitoring tool. You can use it to monitor different kind of systems whether it is Windows or Linux/UNIX machine; Server, PC or printer; Switch, router or firewall; Application or service. Additionally, when some thing goes wrong, Nagios will send an immediate notification via email or cellphone. All these features with too many others in a free pen source product called Nagios.

What to monitor ?

You might ask your self "What can I monitor usig Nagios?". The answer is "Every thing!" from simple ping checker to extensive system monitoring using SNMP or any other network protocols. Simply, you set thresholds values for the service or system you are moniroting, and if it exceed these values, it will trigger an event handler. The customer is responsible for developing this handler. You can send notifications, execute a script to do any proactive action, or do what ever you want.

How to install and configure Nagios?

You need first to download Nagios package. If you are running ubuntu machine, you can simply download and install Nagios using Synaptic tool. After downloading and instlling Nagios, you need to configure it using Nagios Documentaions page. The main concept in Nagios configuration is as follow:

1. Define your host in a .cfg file
2. Define the service you want to monitor on the host in another .cfg
   
3. Define the exact command to monitor the service (if it does not exist in command.cfg)
   

Atheeb inaugurated "GO جو"

In a festivity ceremony, Etihad Atheeb Telecoms has inaugurated its commercial brand - GO - last night. It was an amazing ceremony in presence his royal highness prince Abdulaziz Bin Ahmad Bin Abdulaziz, Etihad Atheeb executives and employees, and a number of businessmen.
The cermony started with recitation from the holy qora'an. Then speaches from Prince Abdulaziz & Etihad Atheeb CEO, Dr. Ahmad Sindi followed by documentary movie about Etihad Atheed. The cermony concluded with the inauguration of the commercial brand (GO - جو). Atheeb CEO said that the two balls in the brand mean two Hemispheres; the red big one means a mature and experienced ball, and the green small one means a young ball that want to speedup and catch the big one. GO in English means "go do", "go develop", and "go achieve". "جو" in Arabic means "air", "weather", and "atmosphere" which is the way Atheeb will deliver services to its customers.

Some pics from the cermony

Welcome back Edu

"The best day of my life"

The fist statement told by Eduardo Da Silva - Arsenal striker - after his dreadful injury last year (I wrote a full post about this incedent: Eduardo Da Silva & the horrible injury). The Croatian striker returned last night and scored twice against Cardiff City and puts Arsenal into FA Cup fifth round. We (as Arsenal fans) cannot say more than:

"Welcome back Edu" 

Full  Report from Telegraph

Obama mentioned an Islamic hadith at National Prayer Breakfast

In the politic world, we used to get surprised by the countries presidents. President Barak Obama had a speech last week at the yearly National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C., and he was speaking about the faith and "how it should be Unite, not divided".

The most interesting thing that he mentioned the Islam and Muslims more than one time. Moreover, he mentioned hadith said by our messenger Mohammad peace be upon him:

In Islam, there is a hadith that reads “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”

I think, this means that this president knows a lot of thing about our religion more than all previous America's president.

# Reference: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/02/obama_faith_sho.html

حينما يفعل الأتراك ... ما لم يفعله العرب

لا يمر حدث سياسي على الأمة الإسلامية أوالعربية، إلا ويكون لنا من مواقف الخزي والعار الشيء الكثير. لم نعد نطالب بصد عدوان عاشم ظالم، بل لم نعد نطالب بمواقف الشجب و الإستنكار. فهذة المواقف أصبحت حلم يحلم بها المواطن العربي المسلم. الآن نحن نطالب بنطق كلمة الحق، و الإعتراف بالظلم و التعدي. فالطفل اليتيم، و الأرملة المكلومة، والأم التي فقدت أعز ما تملك لا يطالبون سوى بالإعتراف بحقهم الذي تعدت عليه القوة الغاشمة الهمجية التي تضرب دون رحمة، و تقصف دون ذرة إنسانية. كل ما استطعنا فعلة هوتعديد أسباب هذة الحرب، و إشارة أصابع الإتهام لبعضنا البعض. تحليل المواقف السياسية، و التصريح لنشرات الأخبار والبرامج الحوارية هو أكثر ما تميز به السياسي العربي.

و في المقابل، وجدنا دولاً و حضارات أخرى أنصفت إخواننا المسلمين، وذكرت كلمة الحق أمام العالم أجمع. كلنا شاهد موقف رئيس الوزراء التركي رجب طيب أوردوغان حينما إنسحب من مؤتمر دافوس بسويسرا بعد مشادة كلامية مع شمعون بيريس. أوردوغان بهذا الموقف لم يعد الحق لأصحابه، ولن يمنع دولة الصهاينة من معاودة الإعتداء على غزة. و لكن وجدنا رجلاً إستطاع تسجيل موقفاً لم يستطع أي حاكم عربي أن يسجله، و كل مااستطعنا فعلة هو التحية والتبجيل لهذا البطل !!